Another project designed to draw Afghans closer to Central Asia is the AIRITOMFree Zone in Termez, which opened last year and ...

Efforts by Central Asian states to engage with Afghanistan are getting a boost from the United Nations. A recently adopted UN ...

The Israel-Iran conflict has shown that Central Asia’s bid for strategic autonomy is deeply fragile. In a world of unraveling ...

Is Washington ready to subordinate its talk about advancing sovereignty and economic prosperity in Central Asia in favor of ...

Central Asia’s worsening water crisis risks regional instability, but also creates a rare opening for the US to engage diplomatically, support infrastructure, and counter rival powers through ...

So a symbiotic relationship between Russia and Central Asia looks likely to endure. Lenin may no longer loom large over Kyrgyzstan, but Russia will loom large over Central Asia for quite a while yet.

Xi said Afghanistan was a “close neighbor” to China, as well as Central Asia. Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan share a border with Afghanistan.

In a remote town in southern Kyrgyzstan, teacher Nur Akhmatov watched workers building a library, conference hall and women's sports centre -- construction mostly funded by Kyrgyz emigrants ...